Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PHILADELPHIA — On Sunday afternoon at Marian Anderson Hall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin led his Philadelphia Orchestra through the ...

This magnificently photographed French film tells the ancient legend of Tristan and Isolde to the accompaniment of an operatic musical score by MAGMA. Tristan is a young warrior who has been sent to ...

Isolde attempts to poison Tristan and herself on the voyage, but her maid Brangane swaps out the poison for love potion, with ultimately tragic consequences. Director Yuval Sharon makes his ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The creators of a new “Tristan und Isolde” production explain the influences behind every element of a crucial scene. One scene near the end of Act I of “Tristan und Isolde” at ...

Stuart Skelton, Nina Stemme and Brian Mulligan as Tristan, Isolde and Kurwenal performing behind the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Photo: Jessica Griffin / Philadelphia O ...

People who care about opera can’t stop talking about the baby, or “that damned baby” as a disgruntled patron put it on the way out of the Metropolitan Opera last week. It’s a directorial conceit in a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Ozarks native and international opera star Michael Spyres will sing the role of Tristan in the Metropolitan Opera’s live cinema production of Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde.” The ...

Richard Wagner was a difficult person, to put it lightly—an infamous anti-Semite and world-historical egoist known for displaying ingratitude and duplicity toward lovers, friends, and benefactors ...

Voice! Voice! And more voice! That’s what we got from the Met’s new production of Wagner’s TRISTAN UND ISOLDE last night, especially from the glorious soprano of Lise Davidsen as the Irish princess ...

PHILADELPHIA — On Sunday afternoon at Marian Anderson Hall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin led his Philadelphia Orchestra through the four-hour entirety of Richard Wagner’s ‘Tristan and Isolde.” And I don’t ...

Literature and legend are rife with young lovers tragically undone by war, politics and cruel fate. Director Baz Luhrmann understood that the naïveté of teenagers in love is a force to be reckoned ...